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Monument details

Summary

Several Palaeolithic handaxes and flakes at East Hill House, Dartford, found during evaluation and then subsequent excavation at the site, supplementing previous reports of a handaxe having been found.

Monument Types

• FINDSPOT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Associated Finds

• WORKED FLINT (Lower Palaeolithic - 500000 BC to 150001 BC)

Full description

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Several Palaeolithic handaxes and flakes at East Hill House, Dartford, found during evaluation and then subsequent excavation at the site of the Later Prehistoric, Roman and post-Roman remains. Flakes were residual in post-Palaeolithic features, or were found in the underlying Dartford Heath terrace gravel (1, 2). Record in SRPP (3) of handaxes and debitage previously found at the site by Mr G Treveil and retained by him

<1> Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 2002, Evaluation at East Hill House, East Hill, Dartford, Kent (Unpublished document). SKE11955.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2006, Excavations at the Former East Hill House, Sterndale Road, Dartford, Kent. (Unpublished document). SKE12980.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 1993, The Southern Rivers Palaeolithic Project, Report No.2: The South West and South of the Thames [Vol. I - text], NWK 4.8 (Monograph). SWX6569.

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